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herba impia |
herbaceous |
herbaceous plant |
herbage |
herbaged |
herbal
| herbal medicine
| herbal tea
| herbal therapy
| herbalism
| herbalist
herbal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun herbal has 1 sense
- herbal(n = noun.food) herb tea, herbal tea - tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs; Array is a kind of tea
has particulars: tisane
Adjective herbal has 1 sense
- herbal(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to herbs; "herbal tea, herbal medicine" Derived forms noun herb2, noun herb1
CIDE DICTIONARY
herbal, a.
Of or pertaining to herbs. Quarles. [1913 Webster]
herbal, n.
- A book containing the names and descriptions of plants. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium. Steele. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
herbal, adj. & n.
--adj. of herbs in medicinal and culinary use.
--n. a book with descriptions and accounts of the properties of these.
--adj. of herbs in medicinal and culinary use.
--n. a book with descriptions and accounts of the properties of these.
Etymology
med.L herbalis (as HERB)
ROGET THESAURUS
herbal
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.Botany
N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.
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